Re: Proposal: A need for simple development helping tools/scripts

Hi Jesus, This sounds like a good idea to me. I'd like to see my quick and dirty hack made into a clean and pretty tool combined with your work. create_package.xml.php relies upon phpDocumentor's Io class, so perhaps the nice features of Io could be incorporated into one of the File_* packages Greg Jesus M. Castagnetto wrote:

I remember that Greg mentioned that he built a script to generate a package.xml file. That would be a boon for PEAR packages with a complex tree. I saw that script in the phpDocumentor's CVS tree (scripts/create_package.xml), and with some little tinkering it could be adapted to be general. On the same note, as I am writing unit tests for my PEAR packages (as time permits), I ended up writing a quick-and-dirty script to generate a skeleton for a unit test class, not too fancy, just the basics. It lives now in Math_Stats/test/mkUnitTest.php until it finds a better home. Now, the proposal. Why not put this type of tools on a 'tools' dir on PEAR's CVS?, that way developers can make ready use of them. I do not think these tools would be of general user interest, so they do not need to be part of the pear packager, unless someone has a better rationale. If such things are needed, what other scripts would need to be written? Ideas/suggestions/pointers/recommendations? Cheers. ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com